How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
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- Synopsis
- &“With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoir&’s transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you won&’t just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share.&” —The Washington Post&“This raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them.&” —People &“Molly Jong-Fast&’s memoir is mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable, crazily honest, heartbreaking, funny, illuminating—beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life.&” —Anne Lamott From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother&’s encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhoodMolly Jong-Fast is the only child of a famous woman, writer Erica Jong, whose sensational book Fear of Flying launched her into second-wave feminist stardom. She grew up yearning for a connection with her dreamy, glamorous, just out of reach mother, who always seemed to be heading somewhere that wasn&’t with Molly. When, in 2023, Erica was diagnosed with dementia just as Molly&’s husband discovered he had a rare cancer, Jong-Fast was catapulted into a transformative year.How to Lose Your Mother is a compulsively readable memoir about an intense mother–daughter relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and the upheavals that challenge our hard-won adulthood. A pitch-perfect balance of acceptance and rage, humor and heart, How to Lose Your Mother tells a universal story of loss alongside a singular story of a literary life. This is a memoir that will stand alongside the classics of the genre.
- Copyright:
- 2025
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 256 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593656488
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780593656471, 9798217071999, 9798217072002
- Publisher:
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 06/03/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Normal Girl Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Communication
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.